October 5/6/7

Sun, Oct. 7 | 4:30 pm | 90 minutes

Friend or Foe?

America’s place in the world. WithGérard Araud,the French Ambassador to the U.S., and Susan Rice,the former U.N. Ambassador and U.S. national-security adviser. Moderated byEvan Osnos.

Politics and Nonfiction

Photograph by Kay Nietfeld / dpa picture alliance / Alamy

Gérard Araud is the French Ambassador to the United States. He was previously the permanent representative of France to the United Nations, and before that, as France’s political director, he acted as the country’s negotiator with Iran on the nuclear matter. He has also served as the director for strategic affairs, security, and disarmament in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and as the French Ambassador to Israel.

Susan Rice was the U.S. national-security adviser from 2013 to 2017 and, before that, the Ambassador to the United Nations under President Barack Obama. She was previously a Brookings Institution senior fellow and the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. She is currently a visiting distinguished research fellow at American University’s School of International Service and a non-resident senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She is also a contributing opinion writer at the Times, and she joined Netflix’s board of directors earlier this year.

Evan Osnos joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2008. He covers politics and foreign affairs, and his piece “How Trump Could Get Fired” appeared in the May 8, 2017, issue of the magazine. His 2014 book, “Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China,” won the National Book Award for nonfiction, and was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. He is a recipient of the Osborn Elliott Prize and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists.